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From: Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Gareth Bull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Coprocessor for amiga ?????
Message-ID: <49603.26feaf5e@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 24 Sep 90 15:14:06 GMT
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In article <1462@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil>, schweige@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger) writes:
>
> The posting that prompted my original response dealt with a comment calling
> a CBM transputer product 'vaporware'.  I'll readily acknowledge that someone
> at some division of Commodore was investigating a transputer application.
> However, to me at least, notes on a 'concept' from a developers conference do
> not qualify as a product announcement.  Unless an announcement is made that
> a product is intended for release (and this announcement should probably
> come from the appropriate marketing people), the lack of that product does not
> qualify as 'vaporware' (IMHO, :) ).
>
> (This doesn't mean that I wouldn't mind seeing the product :-)  )

        For what it's worth, I have an issue of INFO which has a 1 page review,
including photos, of a C= transputer board for the Amiga which was being
developed in Germany. Since then I've heard nothing. The article stated that
the board was still at a prototype stage.

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